• Everything Apple’s Trying to Kill with OS X Mountain Lion – As is usually the case with any new OS, added features come at the expense of third-party developers who have provided the capabilities in the past. And Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core • Apple posts gorgeous new [...]
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• Apple grants ABC access to its Chinese supply chain, report to air February 21st – Why does ABC get access? It’s owned by Disney, which includes Pixar, of which Steve Jobs was once CEO. Job’s estate is the biggest shareholder of Disney. Oh, and Disney CEO Bob Iger is on the board of Apple. [...]
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Microsoft’s overhauling the main interface for Windows 8, making it look a lot more like its mobile operating system, Windows Phone. As a result, the company has decided it should also redo the Windows logo, according to this Windows Team Blog post by Sam Moreau, whose unwieldy title is “Principal Director of User Experience for [...]
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This is your Friday open-comment thread on TechBlog. You know, the one where you get to leave a comment about anything related to personal technology. I’ll approve it, and then others can read your pearls of wisdom. They’ll drop a few pearls of their own, I suspect. Come back later and share some more.
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• Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings – The Wall Street Journal reports that Google was circumventing privacy settings in iPhones so it could determine whether a user was a Google+ member, then serve them relevant ads. Google has since discontinued the practice. Also A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on [...]
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With Apple’s announcement today that the next version of Mac OS X will further integrate components developed first for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, the blurring of lines between desktop and mobile continues. OS X 10.8, which is code-named Mountain Lion, will continue the evolution begun with 10.7, a.k.a Lion. And when Microsoft’s Window 8 [...]
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Ice Cream Sandwich, the fourth version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, hasn’t been out of the freezer long enough to start melting yet, and now there’s word that its successor may be imminent. DigiTimes reports that Google is prepping Android 5.0, code-named Jelly Bean, for release in the second quarter of this year. And [...]
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Updated 7:43 a.m. • Apple ‘Mountain Lion’ takes more bites out of iOS – Apple releases to developers an early version of Mac OS X 10.8, a.k.a. Mountain Lion. It includes many features from iOS, such as Messages (which replaces iChat), Reminders, Notes, Notification Center and Game Center. A beta version of Messages (which still [...]
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Smartphones are incredibly convenient, but as the laws of karma dictate, convenience has a price. In the case of social apps that seek out friends with whom you can connect, that price may be your privacy. Earlier this month, it was discovered that the increasingly popular social network app Path was sending iOS address books [...]
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• Apple Chief Unveils a New Product: Himself – Tim Cook sits for an interview at a Goldman Sachs conference, and we finally get a look at Apple’s new CEO out from under the shadow of the late Steve Jobs. MacRumors has a complete transcript and you can hear the full audio here. • iOS [...]
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